Scientists have just unlocked a 3,500-year-old ancient code that could rewrite human history

This cuneiform tablet, just over ten centimetres wide, describes a ceremonial ritual (Picture: Dr Daniel Schwemer/Cover Media)

Artificial intelligence is being used to translate ancient clay cuneiform tablets that could give us clues to the origins of human civilisation.

The tech tools are able to decipher and reconstruct fragments Hittite texts in a fraction of the time it has taken humans to read and translate them.

In the three millennia before the Common Era, advanced civilisations in the Near East recorded information on clay tablets using cuneiform – a writing system in which wedge-shaped symbols were pressed into wet clay with a stylus before being dried.

The project, developed by researchers at the University of Würzburg and the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz, focuses on cuneiform tablets produced around 3,500 years ago in what is now Anatolia, in Read Entire Article